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We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 20167 award, which this year features 53 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2016 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced in April, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday June 24th. This year’s bookfair will be held at Goldsmiths University’s Great Hall.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

Jack Shenker

Allen Lane

The Optician of Lamedusa

Emma Jane Kirby

Allen Lane

The Descent of Man

Grayson Perry

Allen Lane

1917: Russia’s Red Year

John Newsinger and Tim Sanders

Bookmarks

A Rebel’s Guide to Malcolm X

Antony Hamilton

Bookmarks

Schools Out! : The Hidden History of Britain’s School Student Strikes

Steve Cunningham & Michael Lavalette

Bookmarks

This is the Place to Be

Lara Pawson

CB Editions

Lean Logic & Surviving The Future

David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin

Chelsea Green

Moranifesto

Caitlin Moran

Ebury Press

And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain

Adrian Tempany

Faber&Faber

Gee Vaucher: An Introspective

Stevphen Shukaitis

Firstsite

See Red Women’s Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990

See Red Members & Sheila Rowbotham

Four Corners Books

The Apocalypedia: A Utopian Guide to What is and What isn’t

Darren Allen

Green Books

Another Day in the Death of America

Gary Younge

Guardian Faber

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

Patrick Kingsley

Guardian Faber

The Long Depression

Michael Roberts

Haymarket

Six Authors in Search of Justice: Engaging with Political Transitions

Michael Newman

Hurst

A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt

H.A. Hellyer

Hurst

The Bleeding Edge: Why Capitalism Musn’t Get its Hands on New Technologies Ever Again

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is happy to announce that submissions are now being welcomed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017. The Bread and Roses Award celebrates non-fiction which is

David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ (Melville House, 2011)
Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’ (Verso, 2012)
Joe Glenton’s ‘Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on Terror’ (Verso, 2013)
‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones (Honno Press, 2014)
‘The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh’ by Jeremy Seabrook (Hurst, 2015)Guest judgesThis year’s guest judges are:

Vera Chok is a writer and actor who contributed a chapter to The Good Immigrant (Book of the Year 2016, BBC Book of the Week, #1 on Guardian Books and Amazon bestseller) and is also published by the Guardian, Rising, Yauatcha Life, and The Brautigan Free Press. As a maker, Vera writes and produces mischievous and subversive pieces that investigate the construction of meaning, connection, and performativity. Vera is particularly interested in race, sex and gender and uses comedy as a weapon.

Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. His most recent books include A New Kind of Bleak (Verso, 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016)

Professor Joan Anim-Addo has been the Director of the then Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldmsiths, and is currently convenor for the undergraduate option: Caribbean Women’s Writing and also the Pathway ‘Literature of the Caribbean and its Diasporas’ within the MA Comparative Literary Studies programme.

Award ceremony and prize money

The prize will be awarded at the London Radical Bookfair, to be held on Saturday 24th June 2017 in the Great Hall at Goldsmiths University, London.

There is one prize of £500 to the winning title, generously funded by the General Federation of Trade Unions. The prize is run in conjunction with the ARB’s prize for progressive children’s writing, The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing as ‘The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh’ by Jeremy Seabrook, and published by Hurst Publishers.

In ‘The Song of the Shirt’ Seabrook shines a light on the seemingly forgotten plight of Bangladeshi textile workers, and compares, contrasts and links their situation with the histories of Britain’s own textile workers at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Remarkably, Seabrook does so with a uniquely lyrical prose style, and with an insight that is both highly knowledgeable and unmistakably heartfelt.
Official synopsis

“Labour in Bangladesh flows like its rivers in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in China and 52 cents in India can be had for a song in Bangladesh 18 cents. It is mostly women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who bring in 70 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange. Bangladesh today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it with limitless cheap garments through Primark, Walmart, Benetton, Gap.

In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour settlements.

In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the British textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world’s major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn’t t be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.”

Quotes from guest judges:

Guest judge Nina Power said of the book “Global, passionate, informative: Seabrook’s The Song of the Shirt is an elegiac and enraging account of the garment industry, placing humanity firmly at its heart.”

The award was presented by Natalie Bennett, Nina Power and Owen Hatherley at the London Radical Bookfair. The author was presented with a cheque for £500, with the award money funded by the General Federation of Trade Unions.

The ARB would like to thank all publishers and authors who took part, resulting in an incredibly strong shortlist, all of which we would highly recommend reading.

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016. Now in its fifth year, the Bread & Roses Awards seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

Previous winners include David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5000 Years’ and Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’.

We are very happy to announce the Longlist for the 2016 award, which this year features a record 57 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2015 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced in March, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday May 7th. This year’s bookfair will be held at Goldsmiths University’s Great Hall.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Longlist is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.

Title

Author

Publisher

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

Anita Anand

Bloomsbury

Soldier, Spy: A Survivor’s Tale

Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud

Bloomsbury

The Health Gap

Michael Marmot

Bloomsbury

Marxism and Womens Liberation

Judtih Orr

Bookmarks

Them and Us: Fighting the Class War 1910-1939

John Newsinger

Bookmarks

Fighting on All Fronts: Popular Resistance in the Second World War

(ed) Donny Gluckstein

Bookmarks

Bob Marley: Roots, Reggae & Revolution

Brian Richardson

Bookmarks

Fighters in the Shadows

Robert Gildea

Faber & Faber

Bitter Freedom

Maurice Walsh

Faber & Faber

The Planet Remade

Oliver Morton

Granta

Don’t Trust Don’t Fear Don’t Beg

Ben Stewart

Guardian Books

Cameron’s Coup

Polly Toynbee and David Walker

Guardian Books

Swimming with Sharks

Joris Luyendijk

Guardian Books

Doing Good Better

William Macaskill

Guardian Books

The Song of the Shirt

Jeremy Seabrook

Hurst

2071 The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren

Duncan Macmillan and Chris Rapley

John Murray

Northern ReSisters: Conversations with Radical Women

Bernadette Hyland

Mary Quaile Club

Blacklisted

Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith

New Internationalist

Austerity: The demolition of the welfare state and the rise of the zombie economy

Kerry-Anne Mendoza

New Internationalist

Rise of the Robots

Martin Ford

Oneworld

Unfinsihed Business

Ann-Marie Slaughter

Oneworld

My Life on the Road

Gloria Steinem

Oneworld

Empire of Fear

Andrew Hosken

Oneworld

Breadline Britain

Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack

Oneworld

The Play of Political Culture, Emotions and Identity

Candida Yates

Palgrave

Social and Psychological Dimensions of Personal Debt and the Debt Industry

ed. Serdar M. Degirmencioglu and Carl Walker

Palgrave

Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry

Craig Newnes

Palgrave

Do We Need Midwives?

Michel Odent

Pinter and Martin

Men, Love & Birth

Mark Harris

Pinter and Martin

A Passion for Birth. My life: anthropology, family and feminism

Sheila Kitzinger

Pinter and Martin

Bare Reality: 100 Women, Their Breasts, Their Stories

Laura Dodsworth

Pinter and Martin

Rebel Footprints

David Rosenberg

Pluto Press

Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth

Kevin Ovenden

Pluto Press

The Mythology of Work

Peter Fleming

Pluto Press

Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts

Mel Evans

Pluto Press

Whose Land Is Our Land? The use and abuse of Britain’s forgotten acres

Submissions now open fortheBread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016

Guest judges: Natalie Bennett, Anna Minton and Nina Power

Award ceremony keynote event at the London Radical Bookfair on 7th May

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is happy to announce that submissions are now being welcomed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016. The Bread and Roses Award celebrates non-fiction which is

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green party. She edited Guardian Weekly between 2007 and March 2012. She’s a veteran blogger, with her home blog being Philobiblon, covering politics, history and books, and she was the founder of the Carnival of Feminists.

Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the author of ‘One-Dimensional Woman’ (Zero Books 2009), co-editor of Alain Badiou’s ‘On Beckett’ (Clinamen 2002), and the author of several articles on European Philosophy, atomism, pedagogy, art and politics.

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and the author of ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City’, published by Penguin. She is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Financial Times and is a Reader in Architecture at the University of East London. More info about her work can be found at www.annaminton.com

Award ceremony and prize money

The prize will be awarded at the London Radical Bookfair, to be held on Saturday 7th May. This year’s London Radical Bookfair will be taking place in tandem with the Alternative Press Fair.

There is one prize of £500 to the winning title, generously funded by the The General Federation of Trade Unions. The prize is run in conjunction with the ARB’s prize for progressive children’s writing, The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing as ‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’, published by Honno Press, and edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones.

Through a series of interviews and articles, 17 key British women campaigners talk intimately about the difficult and exhilarating nature of their activism. They have organised, marched on the streets, joined protest camps, opened refuges, blogged from war zones, and smashed up military equipment. They have gone undercover, lived in trees, stormed Parliament, and taken on the world’s largest corporations. They have been sacked, attacked, psychologically abused, jailed, shot at, sued, deceived by police spies, and even disowned by their families. But still they keep dreaming; still they march on. And they are changing history.

Guest judge Nina Power said of the book “Anthologies can often be uneven affairs, but this collection was consistently moving, insightful and inspiring in equal measure. The editors deserve particular praise for having so brilliantly presented these essential accounts of women involved in so many areas of struggle.”

Co-guest judge Anna Minton added “From the first page to the last, these incredible stories of women’s political courage leap off the page. The blend of personal accounts mixed with outstanding journalism make for a truly inspiring collection.”

The award was presented by Anna, Nina and Natalie Bennett at the London Radical Bookfair. The editors were presented with a cheque for £500, with the award money funded by the General Federation of Trade Unions.